Symposium on Radiation and Health
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STOP CASSINI EARTH FLYBY Symposium on Radiation and Health |
Symposium: Recent Studies of Low Level Radiation and Implications for Medicine and the Nuclear Industry. "All You've Ever Wanted to Know About Radiation but Were Afraid to Ask" The controversies surrounding debates about radiation's effects on human health are long-standing and unresolved. Standard setting bodies have lowered radiation protection standards over a half dozen times since first establishing them some seventy years ago, as new data and new interpretations of them have repeatedly shed light on the inadequacies of standards formerly perceived as "safe." Recent studies have indicated that, once again, low-level radiation protection standards may need lowering. This symposium assembles those in the forefront of these debates. Organized by Standing for Truth About Radiation (STAR Foundation) it promises to be one of the most exciting events of the last decade. Not only will we be discussing the medical and biological implications of the latest scientific literature on low-level radiation and the ramifications for the nuclear industry, but representatives of the nuclear industry itself have agreed to be an integral part of the program, presenting their data and views for the first time in an open forum. The debate will no doubt be intense, exciting, and sometimes difficult,but I am sure that in the end we will all be wiser, and will have learned from each other. I therefore urge you to register now for this two-day event which promises to be the most important of its kind ever held. Helen Caldicot Vice President, STAR Foundation President Emeritus, Physicians for Social Responsibility PROGRAM Saturday, September 26, 1998 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration. 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Welcome, Moderator, Donald Louria, M.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, New Jersey Medical School. "Potential Medical Consequences of Food Irradiation." 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Alice Stewart, M.D., FRCP, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham. "A Bomb Survivor: Reassessment of the Radiation Hazard." 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Hal Morgenstern, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health. "Report of the Rocketdyne/Atomic Workers, Incidence of Malignancies." 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Morning Tea. 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Eric Wright, Medical Research Council at Harwell, Oxfordshire. "Low-Dose Radiation and Genetic Damage." 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Steve Wing, Associate Professor, and David Richardson, Post Doctoral Research Assistant, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Radiation and Mortality among US Department of Energy Workers, with particular reference to Current Standards." 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Panel Discussion. 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch. 1:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Carrie Clark, Doctoral Candidate in History, SUNY Stony Brook. "Historical Perspectives on the Nuclear Weapons and Power Industries, with Particular Reference to Radiation Exposures." 1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Jack Fix, Epidemiologist, Pacific Northwest National Lab. "Dosimetry Program at Hanford, Radiation Standards and National Radiation Registry." 2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Greg Wilkinson, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Buffalo. "Mutagenic and Carcinogenic Effects of Alpha Radiation." 2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Afternoon Tea. 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Otto Raabe, President, Health Physics Society, Institute of Toxicology & Environmental Health. "Three dimensional Models of Radiation Risk." 3:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Richard Clapp, Associate Professor, Environmental Health, Boston University, School of Public Health, Environmental Health Division. "Incidence of Malignancy in Populations Adjacent to the Pilgrim Nuclear Reactor." 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. 5:15 p.m. -6:00 p.m Myron Pollycove, M.D. Professor Emeritus of Laboratory Medicine and Radiology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, and Visiting Medical Fellow, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Human Biology. "Epidemiology and Low-Dose Radiation." Tony Mazzochi, Presidential Assistant, Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers. Thurman Wenzl, Research Industrial Hygienist, NIOSH. "Impact of Recent Radiation Research on Adequacy of Standards and Guidelines-Response and Discussion." Discussion Sunday, September 27, 1998 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Moderator, Helen Caldicott, M.D., President Emeritus, Physicians for Social Responsibility. "Fallout Studies." 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Arjun Makhijani, President of Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. "Environmental Effects of Nuclear Weapons Production and Testing." 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Bernie Goldstein, Chair, Environmental and Community Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. "CRESP: A Stakeholder Based Approach to Risk Assessment for Radionuclide Contamination at DOE Sites." 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Morning Tea. 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Marvin Resnikoff, Ph.D., Senior Associate Radioactive Waste Management Associates. "Mobile Chernobyl, Casks Temperatures, Volatility and Isotopes." 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Steve Frishman, Geologist, Technical Policy Coordinator, Nevada Agency on Nuclear Projects. "Political and Technical Strategies re: Yucca Mountain." Don Hancock, Director Nuclear Waste Safety Program, Southwest Research and Information Institute, Albuquerque. "Carlsbad and Transuranic Waste." 12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Diane D'Arrigo, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS). "Below Regulatory Concern and Radioactive Metal Recycling." Mary Olson, Nuclear Information and Resource Service. "MOX Fuel and Food Irradiation." 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Panel Discussion. 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Lunch. 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. William Arkin, Consultant to the Natural Resources Defense Council. "Post Cold War Nuclear Weapons, Stewardship and Counterproliferation." 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Jonathan Schell, Author, The Fate Of the Earth. "The Case for Abolition." 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Tea. 4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Admiral Gene Carroll, Deputy Director, Center for Defense Information. "The Military Route to Abolition of Nuclear Weapons." 4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Helen Caldicott, M.D., President Emeritus, Physicians for Social Responsibility. Summary and Closing. A reception and dinner will be held on Saturday evening to benefit STAR Foundation. TO REGISTER: Print and and send with payment to the address below. NAME: ADDRESS: CITY/TOWN: STATE: POSTAL CODE: E-mail: Phone: COSTS: Register me as: Physician($150.00) General Public ($100.00) Student($75.00) Saturday Dinner ($100) Total: Standing for Truth About Radiation PO Box 4206 Easthampton, NY 11937 Phone: (516)324-0655 Fax: (516)324-2203 Website: www.noradiation.org
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